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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: 156 pages : illustrations (DLC) 2014407316 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Bowen Savant; Helena de Felipe |
ISBN: | 9781785395451 1785395459 0748644989 9780748644988 |
OCLC Number: | 922078157 |
Description: | 1 online resource (17 entries) : 1 image. |
Contents: | List of figures and tables -- Introduction / Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe -- Part one. The generation of genealogical knowledge: 1. Keeping the Prophet's family alive: profile of a genealogical discipline / Kazuo Morimoto; 2. Motives and techniques of genealogical forgery in pre-modern Muslim societies / Zolt án Szombathy; 3. The genealogy of power and the power of genealogy in Morocco: history, imaginary and politics / Zakaria Rhani -- Part two: Empowering political and religious elites: 4. Berber leadership and genealogical legitimacy: the Almoravid case / Helena de Felipe; 5. Ways of connecting with the past: genealogies in Nasrid Granada / Maribel Fierro; 6. Embarrassing cousins: genealogical conundrums in the central Sahara / Judith Scheele -- Part three. Genealogy as a source for writing history: 7. Was Marwan ibn al-Hakam the first "real" Muslim? / Fred M. Donner; 8. Genealogy and ethnogenesis in al-Mas'udi's Muruj al-dhahab / Sarah Bowen Savant; 9. Genealogical prestige and marriage strategy among the Ahl al-Bayt: the case of the al-Sadr family in recent times / Raffaele Mauriello -- About the contributors. |
Series Title: | Exploring Muslim contexts. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe. |
Abstract:
Explores the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge. This title ranges from the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies.
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- Genealogy -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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- Muslims -- Intellectual life.
- Islamic countries -- Intellectual life.
- Islamic countries -- Civilization.
- Généalogie -- Aspect religieux -- Islam.
- Parenté -- Aspect religieux -- Islam.
- Musulmans -- Vie intellectuelle.
- Pays musulmans -- Vie intellectuelle.
- Civilization.
- Intellectual life.
- Islamic countries.